From Farmerville

To License Tax Payers: All licenses are due and collectible during the first two months of each year, and become delinquent on the 1st day of March of each year. After date of delinquency the law requires two per cent interest per month to be charged. Settle at once and save cost. C. H. Murphy, Tax Collector.

Next Friday is St. Valentine’s day.

Fresh grated coconut at M. Guehring’s.

Mr. A. C. Gill went to Monroe Saturday on business.

Business was very good in Farmerville last Saturday.

Fresh oysters Tuesdays and Saturdays at Mayo’s.

Col. D. Stein has been laid up for the past week with sickness.

Capt. H. W. McLeod spent Saturday and Sunday in Farmerville.

Miss Mollie Powell, of Marion, went to Monroe last Friday on the Camden.

Mr. J. B. Covington left yesterday for St. Louis to purchase a car load of stock.

Miss Elise Guehring and Mrs. Marx Guggenheim left last Thursday for New Orleans.

FOR SALE CHEAP. A lot of good milk cows with young calves. B. F. Pleasant.

Miss Pearl Covington gave a party Saturday afternoon in honor of her tenth birthday.

We learn that Mr. J. B. Clark intends to embark in the mercantile business in Oakland.

The four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Porter, of Loutre vicinity, died on Jan. 30, from croup.

District Court will convene in Farmerville next Monday. At that session a new grand jury will be impaneled.

Mr. D. W. Dawson has been appointed constable of the first justice ward of Union Parish, vice Mr. Jas. Hall resigned.

Hunt’s Cure is not a misnomer. It does cure Itch, Ringworm, Eczema, Tetter, and all similar skin diseases. A wonderful remedy Guaranteed. Price 50 cents. Sold by R.Haas, Agt.

Miss Mattie Hardy left Thursday morning for New Orleans to witness Mardi Gras festivities. She went by steamboat from Monroe.

There is a time for all things. The time to take Simmons’ Cough Cure is when afflicted with Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Coughs or Colds. It is guaranteed to cure you. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by R. Haas, Agent.

Mr. A. L. Stancil has resigned his position with Mr. B. B. Thomas in Marion, and has come to Farmerville to go into the mercantile business with his brother under the firm name of J. W. Stancil & Bro. They are rapidly pushing their new storehouse to completion.

We are closing our our stock of Buggies and Surreys at reduced prices to make room for 1902 styles. Merchants should get our catalogue. MONROE HARDWARE CO. LT’D. Monroe, La.

The Knights of Pythias entertainment to be given at their hall in Farmerville next Wednesday evening, in honor of the 38th anniversary of the order, promises to be a very pleasant affair. The features of the occasion will consist of addresses, music, refreshments, and the evening’s program will conclude with a grand ball.

GROCERIES! GROCERIES!! To arrive Thursday a full and complete line of groceries and plantation supplies, which will be sold at lowest prices. Wait for them. J. D. Baughman

Hon. J. M. Smith, register of the State land office, has completed a list for each of the tax assessors of the State of the lands disposed of in their respective parishes during his administration up to Jan. 1, 1902. The total area amounts to nearly half a million acres, and their being placed on the assessment rolls will augment the revenues of the State and various parishes considerably. The law should require the land office officials to send in each year, say about April 1st, a list of all lands taken up for the preceding twelve months, so they can be properly assessed.

I will be in Farmerville about February 25th, with a car load of fine Missouri mules, mares and horses; selected by me in person for this market. Wait and see my stock and get prices before buying elsewhere. J. B COVINGTON.

Dental Notice. I will be in Farmerville Tuesday Feb. 18, to stay one week prepared to do all kind of dental work. C. H. Laurence, D. D. S.

The police jury have put all parish scrip on a cash basis. They have arranged with Sheriff C. H. Murphy to cash all approved claims against Union Parish during the present year at face value, paying him $450 per annum for so doing.

Oft in the stilly night a racking cough doth rob us of that sweet sleep which nature seeks to give. Simmons’ Cough Syrup is an infallible cure; untroubled sleep and pleasant dreams it both assure. Guaranteed Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by R. Haas, Agt.

How to Succeed in Business. Keep your liver in good condition by using Simmons’ Liver Purifier (tin box). It corrects Constipation, cures Indigestion, Billousness, stops Headache, gets you heart in the right place so you can smile at your neighbor. Sold by R. Haas, Agent.

On February 1st, I will have one car of corn and one car of cotton seed meal, which I will exchange for green cotton seed. Price guaranteed. B. F. Post, Lillie, La.

Patterson, New Jersey, was visited by a very destructive conflagration with began Saturday about midnight and raged until late Sunday afternoon. About 500 large structures, among them the best in the city, were destroyed entailing a loss estimated at $8,000,000. Only two lives were lost so far as is known.

STOPS THE COUGH AND WORKS OFF THE COLD. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents.

Gen. Chas. P. Egan, of embalmed beef fame, is in trouble again. As the result of a hot dispute Col. Willis P. Harlow, a lawyer of national reputation, has challenged Egan to fight a duel.

You’ve got the real thing when you get Hunt’s Lightning Oil for Burns, Bruises, Cuts and Sprains. The most penetrating and healing liniment known. Guaranteed. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by R. Haas, Agent.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is seriously ill at Groton, Mass., where he was attending college. He has double pneumonia. Both Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt are at his bedside.

When pain or irritation exists on any part of the body the application of BALLARD’S SNOW LINIMENT will give prompt relief. Price 25 and 50 cents. R. Haas, Agt.

Avarice is the vice of declining years. – Bancroft.

You Know What you are Taking. When you take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50¢

Where the speech is corrupted the mind is also. – Seneca.

There is probably no disease or condition of the human system that causes more suffering and distress than piles. Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment cures them quickly, without pain or detention from business. Price 50 cents in bottles. Tubes, 75 cents. R. Haas, Agt.

Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, has offered $500 to any person who can interrupt or read one of his wireless messages.

The Best Prescription for Malaria Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure, no pay. Price 50¢.

It is rumored that Mr. Long contemplates soon retiring from the cabinet portfolio of secretary of the navy, and will go to Boston to practice law.

They never did fall; they never will fall. What? Cheatham’s Laxative Tablets — to cure a cold at once. Carry them in your vest pocket. Always ready. Guaranteed. Price 25 cents. Sold by R. Haas, Agent.

Edmund A. Dubose and Lewis Russell, who deserted the United States army last August in the Philippines, and then joined the insurgent forces, were hanged on February 7, after having been condemned by a court martial trial.

Nervous children are almost always thin children. The “out-door-boy” is seldom nervous. WHITE’S CREAM VERMIFUGE is the best preventive of nervousness. It strengthens the system and assists to that sort of flesh, which creates strength and power of endurance. Price 25 cents. R. Haas, Agt.

A new record between Philadelphia and New York was established Friday when a train on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad made the run of 90.2 miles in 84 minutes. Deducting time lost in making forty stops the actual running time was 80 minutes and 20 seconds.

Are you nervous, run down, weak and dispirited. Take a few doses of HERBINE. It will infuse new energy, new life into the exhausted nerves, the over-worked brain or muscular system, and put a new face on life and business. Price 50 cents. R. Haas, Agt.

The Empire hotel in St. Louis was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. It proved to be a veritable death trap, for out of the 35 or 40 inmates of the building eleven persons lost their lives and nearly as many more were injured more or less. The property loss was nominal, being about $20,000.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 25¢

Safe blowers forced open the vaults of the Lemon Banking Co., at Ackworth, Ga., early Sunday morning, by blowing through four protection walls. They secured $5000 in gold, a $5000 state bond and a large amount of stock certificates. About $5000 in notes, bonds currency, certificates, etc., were hopelessly mutilated by the explosion.